The Sound of whooshing flames could be heard along with the sights of sparks of metal wielding together could be heard within the dwelling of the Ed's. Double Dee was installing the device from the Laser battery that he and his companions managed to steal in a risky plan of putting Ed in his old monster suit and let him rampage the robots that guarded it the other day but the reward of gaining the power source for their rocket was well worth their effort.
Double Dee finished working on a control panel within the Rocket that stood tall within the cavern standing at a height that would be taller than any of the houses in the Cul-De-Sac. It was very fortunate that Rolfs Secret Dwelling Cavern was far deep underground giving the Rocket space to be standing as well as be in a position to take off whenever the Ed's get it completed which hopefully would not be any longer now that they had a power source for it.
"Hey Braniac!" Eddy called up from below a later that lead inside the Rocket. "You finished yet?"
"The Installation is nearly complete, Eddy!" Double Dee replied as he double checked all the circuits to make sure they were well connected to their respective stations on the device. The Device glowed bright and was ready for a test to see if it could power their Rocket. Double Dee once he finished checking over everything turned to a large switch that would activate the whole rocket.
With Hope dwelling up within him he hastily turned the switch on and throughout the rocket power surged through it. Double Dee gasped in excitement as he could see lights turn on, gauges were moving and the sound of equipment charging up.
"Yes!" Double Dee cheered but suddenly his excitement quickly faded as all the power faded out of the rocket. The Electricity within the rocket returned back to the source to the device in the control panel. Double Dee fell to his knees realizing that the device alone was not enough to power the entire rocket. "Noooooooo!" He cried throwing his arms up in the air in despair.
"What's going on, Double Dee" A Voice asked behind the hat wearing Ed making him jump in fright.
"Aah, Eddy you know I hate that!" Double Dee groaned. "How many times do I have to tell you?"
Eddy just brushed off his friend's frustration. "Yeah, whatever. So when can we leave professor?"
Double Dee fiddled with his fingers nervously on how he was going to break the bad news as his face grew nervous and knew he had no choice but to tell him. "We are not going anywhere I'm afraid." He said sadly.
Eddy's face went from a satisfied look to shock as if glass just shattered. "What?!" He grabbed Double Dee and shook him madly. "What do you mean?!"
"Eddy! The Device we confiscated the other day is not enough to fully power the Rocket." Double Dee explained despite being becoming dizzy from Eddy's angry shaking of him.
"You said it would be enough!" He screamed making Double Dee clamp on his ears.
"It was a miscalculation, Eddy" Double Dee retorted breaking out of Eddy's grip, having enough of his shaking of him. "It seems we are going to need more devices of similar nature to fully bring our rocket to capability."
Eddy growled and gritted his teeth so angry that a piece of his teeth cracked. "Of all the…" He was so angry he could not finish what he was saying as went to wall and kicked it hard in frustration not realizing what he was doing until it was too late.
"Yeow!" He grabbed his foot and hopped around in pain holding his foot and accidently hopped out of the rocket and fell to the floor outside. Double Dee quickly climbed out from the rocket to check on his friend.
"Eddy, Are you all right?" He asked and he was replied with a painful groan from Eddy who laid on his back forgetting his anger for the moment as the drop from the rocket knocked him to a calmer sense even if it's a painful one.
Double Dee helped him back up but before he could say something Ed came up to them.
"Hey guys, come see this!" Ed grabbed both Eddy and Double Dee carrying them into the van and shoved them into the sights of the periscope.
"Ed you didn't have to be rude to gain our attention." Double Dee lightly scolded but knew Ed's nature was never meaning for rudeness.
"What do you want to show us, lumpy?" Eddy groaned still in some pain as he tried to adjust his eyes to see through the periscope and once he and Double Dee got their eyes cleared they noticed what Ed wanted to show them.
The Two Ed's were laying their eyes on their very school. Peach Creek Jr High. The School like all the other structures were in slight poor condition other than shattered windows, torn off doors, blast marks in places and pieces of the structure missing.
What was most interesting other than seeing the occasional robot patrols around the building and farther out from it was on the very roof of the School was a group of robots guarding what looked like a console with large satellite dish aiming at an angle in the sky.
"My word!" Double Dee gasped "That must be a communications link of some sort."
"So?" Eddy scoffed not truly getting what Double Dee was saying.
"It means, Eddy. Not only if we can get the power source from that uplink to power our rocket, we also may be able to scatter the robots for a good time for without a way to communicate we may not have to worry about any unexpected encounters and ensure our safety when we are above ground." Double Dee explained.
"Oh. I get it now." Eddy understood even though Double Dee's explanation was a little over his head.
"Great find, Ed." Eddy high fived the big guy and he gave a childish laugh.
"Well then, gentlemen." Double Dee hopped out of the van. "It seems we have another mission at hand."
Ed hopped out of van and stood tall with a stern look. "That's right fellow space outlaw. We must ensure the capture of Item of high importance and ensure the scatter and destruction of the solar scum that is the Robots."
Double Dee and Eddy were still having a hard time taking in on how Ed was sounding intelligent in the times like this but then again his obsession over comics, movies and anything of the matter has saved them time and again ever since they got trapped in the dimension.
The Ed's armored up, gathered their weapons and Double Dee packed a few devices he was working on when he wasn't working the rocket for the past two days. The Ed's also carried book bags for Double Dee advised that since they are heading for the school they may find some more items of value. Food, tools and anything that could be of use.
Once they were stocked, weapons locked and loaded, and items they were taking were secure in their bags they ventured up to the surface through a staircase they recently found that goes straight up to Rolf's house above so they didn't have to exposed in the open immediately.
The Ed's made their journey through the Cul-De-Sac venturing through the lane and sticking close to all cover they could find as they went through a hole in the fence and through the nearby woods eventually coming to the road and had to quickly deal with a robot patrol.
The group stuck to the sidewalk keeping a close eye on all sides making sure they were not going to be ambushed since seeing all the patrols before from the periscope. The Ed's dealt with two more patrols that were not large enough to be a high threat as they fired on each of them on site.
Shortly after dealing with the second patrol and passing around a corner of another building they laid their eyes upon the place that Double Dee would find the best place to be in the world if they were not in a dimension full of killer robots.
"Their it is, Gentlemen." Double Dee smiled. "A once proud structure that bestows knowledge to all the young boys and girls to set them on their paths in life."
However Eddy just mocked Double Dee's words behind his back and Ed stared into space not listening at all. "Yeah, what you said, can we go now?" Eddy impatiently said.
Double Dee sighed and nodded as they walked towards the entrance moving under the broken chain fence. The Ed's were about to walk past the School sign that stood in the center of asphalt in front of the entrance before a shot came down from above nearly hitting Eddy making him yelp in fright.
"Take cover!" Eddy yelled as more shots rained down from above as Eddy jumped into Double Dee and Ed taking refuge behind the school sign. With all the shots being fired at once Double Dee could only take quick moment to peak out to see the shots were coming from the robots on the roof.
"What do we do?" Double Dee panicked as he dropped back to the ground taking cover from the laser fire but as he dropped some items fell out from his bag. "Oh Dear, my equipment!" He scurried to put them back.
Eddy didn't know what to think as the laser fire kept coming and now Double Dee was more concerned over his so called equipment but there was one pair of shoes that fell out of the bag that was the last thing Double Dee needed to grab and put away. The Shoes had what looked small rockets on the side of them attached to the sides of both the shoes.
"What's with the shoes?" Eddy asked as he tried to fire at the robots but the height advantage of their foes gave them the upper hand and Eddy could not shoot them without being targeted easy.
"These pair of shoes is part of my string of inventions. They are rocket propelled, made for gaining to higher elevations quickly." Double Dee explained. This made Eddy smile for he had an idea.
"Oh, Ed!" Eddy called.
"Yes, Eddy?" Ed replied looking at his small friend who pointed at the rocket shoes.
"Put them on." Eddy ordered and Ed complied quickly throwing his smelly shoes off and put the rocket shoes on.
"Attack the Robots, Lumpy!" Eddy yelled pointing at the attacking robots on the school roof.
"Attack the Robots!" Ed cried manically and hopped over the sign and then jumped once more and the Rockets on the shoes activated. "Upsie Daisy!" Ed soared into the sky like a human rocket screaming in attack mode as he collided straight into the group of robots above smashing through one of them unphased.
Ed charged around the roof blasting the others with his mini laser and tossed aside a few robot dogs that tried to chomp at him. Ed with fury in his eyes again bested every robot on the roof shooting them down and narrowly avoided being shot himself.
Eddy and Double Dee were still in cover behind the sign below hoping that their friend was okay. "Come on, Double Dee. Put more shoes on us!" Eddy demanded wanting to get up to the roof to help Ed.
"I apologize, Eddy. But I only made one pair so far." Double Dee admitted with regret wishing he did make more for this occasion. Before Eddy could throw a fit or worry some a Robot head landing in front of them making them jump a bit and point their weapons at it only to see it die with no power in its disfigured form.
Eddy and Double Dee slowly peeked over the sign to see their dimwitted friend smile down upon them from the roof. "Yoo-hoo!" He called and waved down at them.
"Great work, Ed!" Eddy called to him. "Just wait there we'll be right up."
"Okay, Eddy." Ed acknowledged as he sat down out of site.
Eddy and Double Dee gathered themselves and were about to walk into the front door of the school when they heard the sound of approaching patrols. They turned to see many robots coming from the roads and around corners, possibly to see what all the noise was. They both hurried inside and shut the door so they wouldn't be spotted.
"Well I'm afraid to say that we can't go back the way we came." Double Dee pointed out looking out the window to see dozens of Robots marching around the school.
"What are we going to do now?" Eddy asked seeing how his friend was right since there were too many robots outside to take on directly.
"I can't be too sure right now, Eddy. But it seems that they don't know we are currently present. So let's barricade this day to be safe and meet up with Ed on the roof." Double Dee suggested earning a nod from Eddy in approval.
The Duo gathered a few items from around the entrance and a nearby classroom and barricaded the entrance with desks, chairs and some toppled lockers.
"That should at least keep our presence a secret for now and keep out our mechanical foes." Double Dee panted wiping some sweat off his forehead.
"Yeah let's go get Ed." Eddy said.
Eddy and Double Dee moved through the hallways as Double Dee was a bit saddened by sight. Hallways ruined and full of trash and toppled lockers. Classrooms that would be full of eager students ready to learn from their teacher or some eager students like himself and others not so eager like his two friends now just destroyed and abandoned such a disgraceful sight even if it's in another dimension.
"Wait a moment, Eddy!" Double Dee halted his friend.
"What's up, Sockhead?" Eddy asked as he just wanted to get the roof and to their friend.
"Before we get the roof, we should search some of the rooms for anything of use. We are about to pass the cafeteria we should grab any food there." He suggested.
Eddy thought for a moment and believed that would be a good idea since they are in their old school full of anything that would be helpful and with a horde of robots outside they may need to get any advantage.
"Good idea, let's do it." Eddy agreed.
Double Dee and Eddy entered the cafeteria which was a derelict as the entire school was. They searched the kitchen area to find some silverware, plates and other types of kitchenware but no food at all, nothing in storage either.
Eddy growled as it was lost cause for the kitchen but as he went back into cafeteria he noticed the vending machine were full of candy and other snacks! Eddy grinned as he ran over to the machine as Double Dee emerged from kitchen frustrated over the lack of finding anything.
"Hey, Double Dee. Over here!" Eddy called having Double Dee run over to him.
"My Word, what a lucky find we have!" Double Dee gasped seeing all the bags for candy and snacks inside the machine.
"You betcha, but do you have quarter? I'm broke!" Eddy growled pulling the inside of his pockets out showing they were empty and without any change getting any of the snacks inside would not be possible.
Double Dee chuckled at Eddy's lack of sense since they would not need any currency for what he was about to do. He aimed his rifle at the plastic that barred anything from grabbing anything inside and fired a shot burning away the plastic wall in an instant surprising Eddy.
"I could have thought of that!" Eddy pointed out quickly gathering all the snacks inside earning another chuckle from Double Dee. Once they filled up one of their backpacks full of every snack from the vending machine they moved on out of the Cafeteria.
They walked the halls checking some lockers and looked in a couple of classrooms to see if anything else could be of use. All they found was random junk and school accessories. Eventually they found the ladder that would take them to the roof with their knowledge of the school interior which made it easy for them to find.
They climbed to the roof and found Ed sitting against the twirling his fingers and laughed making yet another fool of himself.
"Hi guys!" Ed waved at them and jumped up to his feet walking to them.
"Hey, lumpy!" Eddy greeted giving him a pat on the back seeing all the remains of the robots Ed dealt with early scattered all over the roof of school, some in pieces, others shot all over laying in lifeless bodies of metal. "As I said, you're an animal, Ed."
While Ed and Eddy were standing around Double Dee went to the Console with the Satellite dish. "This is extraordinary." He said to himself admiring the advancement in its structure. He looked over the controls of the device and tried to make out how he was going to work it over since it was much different from anything he has ever experimented on.
After a few minutes of looking over the switches, the placements of levers and buttons with no sign on them displaying anything on how it works, Double Dee used some tools he brought with him to pry the control box open to reveal working circuits within and judged where all the connections were going and what they were attached to.
He worked over the different colors from each circuit and did an analysis on how the device operates and what it would do if anything was tampered with incorrectly. He suddenly had an epthimy realizing after seeing how everything was connected and it all led up to the dish above. He realized that if the dish were tampered with in any way at all, it could send a signal out that would lure the robots in as fail safe procedure.
Double Dee knew they needed this device for it was essential to power their rocket but the horde of robots that still patrolled below would increase with every robot around the Cul-De-Sac and more if they didn't take caution to shut it down without having it send the signal out.
"Eddy, Ed!" Double Dee called. "I have come to the conclusion for this Satellite uplink and what we have to do."
"What about it?" Eddy asked.
"We have to find a careful way to shut it down and then transport it to our hideaway." Double Dee explained.
"You got it, Einstein." Eddy smiled taking aim with his pistol at the dish above making Double Dee gasp at what he was about to do.
"No wait, Eddy!" He warned but it was too late as Eddy shot at the dish making a large piece of the dish get blown off of it and Eddy fired more shots till the dish was in nothing but pieces leaving only control console intact.
"There you go." Eddy smiled feeling proud of him but Double Dee looked at him extremely worried.
"Eddy…what have you done?!" He whimpered and Eddy raised an eyebrow at him like he asked a stupid question.
"What do you mean? I blew up the dish and shut down like you wanted." Eddy replied but Double Dee grabbed his shoulders and shook him madly.
"Not that way, Eddy!" He yelled angrily at him. "With the Dish destroyed it sends a signal out to the robots. Now they are going to come here from all over the Cul-De-Sac!"
Eddy realized what Double Dee meant. Uh…whoops" He smiled sheepishly but Double Dee was not amused by his friend's reaction. Suddenly a horrible laughter filled the air.
"What was that?" Double Dee gasped as the laughter filled the air. "Do you hear it? I don't have a good idea about this?"
The Laughter could be heard again and this time all the Ed's heard it as they huddled together and slowly walked towards the edge of the roof and looked over it. They could see dozens of Robot Patrols started to surround the school but coming around the corner of the road where the Ed's once came from emerged three Robots.
The Robots looked human but completely were cybernetic all over their bodies. These three Robot Humanoids were something that the Ed's thought they were rid off but somehow they are still functioning and to their absolute horror they knew right away who they were.
"Ka….ka…KANKERS!" They screamed.